The focus of this paper is the emerging potential for radical e-enabled changes involving two key rural development drivers, namely: 1) enhanced collaboration – addressing problems such as small enterprise sizes, low rural demand and supply chain volumes, as well as problems associated with limited local human capacities and uncoordinated or misdirected rural development planning; and 2) enhanc...

W hen I was initially asked to be a participant in this conference, I thought I was to come up with strategies or modalities on how to bring equity into rural America. So in starting to prepare for this conference, I read the previous conference book Financing Rural America (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City). This book and its findings are extraordinary if not daunting. With such distinguish...

Human capital raises rural incomes, but this effect is swamped by higher returns to human capital in urban markets. This leads to “brain drain” from rural areas. Populations grow more rapidly in rural counties that have a diversified employment base. Farm population grows faster (or declines more slowly) in counties with relatively high farm income, and nonfarm populations grow faster in counti...

Recent patterns of rural land use in Georgia have forest land market. Simultaneous equations will stressed urban aggrandizement and the emphasize the structural interdependence of these transformation of a significant portion of the two markets. Cross-sectional data from 47 Georgia available rural land into forests. The area covered by counties will be used to estimate the structural commercial...

Conservation policy and practice is increasingly turning towards market-based interventions to reconcile the growing conflicts between environmental conservation and rural livelihood needs. This short introductory paper to the special issue on ‘‘market-oriented conservation governance’’ critically investigates the growing commitment to markets as a means of meeting conservation objectives and l...

This article examines the evolution of policy recommendations concerning rural land issues since the formulation of the World Bank’s “Land Reform Policy Paper” in 1975. That paper set out three guiding principles: the desirability of owner-operated family farms; the need for markets to permit land to be transferred to more productive users; and the importance of an egalitarian asset distributio...

http://www.ruralsociology.org The Situation: • Rural areas risk becoming “food deserts” as young families move away and market pressures continue to squeeze small grocers and retailers. Food deserts are defined as counties in which all residents must drive more than 10 miles to the nearest supermarket chain or supercenter. • The Great Plains are especially lacking in easy-access grocers. • The ...